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You know what, I kinda like it the way it is now anyway. It's simple, straight-forward, doesn't have too many layers, etc.. I can read it, understand it, hack it, all this quite easily - rare enough to mention.

That's much closer to the kind of stuff I like to use than the pile of layers + apis docker-based solutions are.

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In docker's defense, it does much more than simply wrap lxc. It also handles logging, port allocation, container versioning, building containers from source code, data persistence, etc. Shipyard will have to re-implement all this (and probably already has, at least partially), and we're definitely not talking about 50 lines.

Not that there anything wrong with that. Docker is quite recent, so it was probably very unstable when shipyard was started, if it was usable at all.

And frankly, even if it weren't: "let he who is without NiH cast the first stone" :)

Calling it by the wrong name certainly sounds like the first stone to me.

ShipBuilder does most of the things you mentioned. Though, its been a while since I played with Docker, it may have overcome some of the challenges shipbuilder has yet to face. What I do like though, is after having been a Heroku user, using ShipBuilder seems like a walk in the park. No need to learn anything new.

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